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Sanctions for environmental damage

The Director General of the National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA), Rodrigo Negrete Montes, talked about the sanctions for environmental damages in the last year.

Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
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MinAmbiente talks global climate balance

At the Latin American Youth Climate Conference hosted in Bogotá this year, Colombia’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente), Susana Muhamad, reaffirmed Colombia’s commitment to the proposals it will present at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

Thursday, October 19th, 2023
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MinAmbiente looks at the CARs

The Colombian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MinAmbiente), led by Minister Susana Muhamad, is taking proactive steps to ensure transparency and citizen participation in the election process of directors for the Regional Autonomous Corporations (CAR).

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
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“When you are draining the swamp, you do not consult the frogs”

This rather succinct but perhaps unpleasant phrase came from an unidentified French cabinet minister, quoted in a The Telegraph article on Great Britain’s broken infrastructure planning process. It seems Colombia’s peers also have great problems with prior consultation and no good solutions.

Monday, October 16th, 2023
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The file remains the same

The file remains the same

Last year, we guess BP tired of doing the industry’s statistical gathering for free. Whatever the reason, it spun out the division doing this work and the Energy Institute took over creating and publishing the Statistical Review of World Energy Data.

Monday, July 24th, 2023
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Energy efficiency and sustainable mining

The world will need the extraction of minerals to advance in the transition to renewable energy sources, generating a challenge to the mining sector.

Thursday, July 13th, 2023
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ANLA head wants more rigor in licensing processes

National business newspaper Portafolio recently interviewed National Environmental Licensing Agency head Rodrigo Negrete to understand his plans for the institution. He talked about having more rigor, decentralizing and alluded to formally including community feedback in the licensing process.

Thursday, January 12th, 2023
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SiB Colombia and GeoPark launch biodiversity data management training program for companies

Via a press release GeoPark announced a biodiversity training program in partnership with Colombia’s Biodiversity Information System (SiB Colombia), the CNAB water and biodiversity center of National Entrepreneurs’ Association ANDI and the Global Biodiversity Information Infrastructure (GBIF): The Corporate Management for Nature: Training Path to Biodiversity Data Mobility.

Thursday, January 12th, 2023
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Barranquilla port closed due to explosions and fire

The first alarms were at 4:15am Wednesday, December 21, from the port area of Compas, first a fire and then explosions. Several firepersons were injured and one was killed. The storage facilities of Bravo Petroleum are affected.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
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How do you stop?

How do you stop?

One of the key questions underlying the debate about the oil and gas industry in Colombia concerns when demand will peak and so for how long can public finances count on the flow of exports and tax revenues. Gustavo Petro’s “Illuminati” believe we all should stop using fossil fuels today and stop producing the stuff. More pragmatic observers think it too soon to (as some headlines put it) kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. Recently the International Energy Agency (IEA) weighed in with its view, based on various climate change scenarios.

Monday, November 7th, 2022
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